With many dead and 2800 injured in Lebanon as a result of "exploding pagers", is Israel now just a full-blown terrorist state?
Let’s see.
Here are the facts:
So far, there have been 2 “waves” of attacks by electronic devices in 48 hours. The first with pagers (beepers), and the second with short range coms (walkie talkie).
All the devices were owned, distributed and used explicitly by Hizballa operatives and cooperators.
Moreover, all the explosive charges were small enough to make sure the blast radius was minimal - and it is indeed evident with the fact that less than 1% of the terrorists hit actually died from it. However, the result still makes sure almost none of them can come back to fighting anytime soon.
Before anything else, this has got to be one of the most innovative, creative, and plain admirable ways ever implemented in any war - to make sure only combatants are hit, and minimize civilian casualties.
But that’s not enough to satisfy those like the OP who are set on blaming Israel no matter what.
So, let us look at the actual numbers, shall we?
With those “2,800 injured” - actually now over 4,500 mind you, and 41 dead, out of which 40 are identified by Hizballa itself as its operatives - see the lovely obituary collage below - it seems Israel has once again found a way to target combatants only, in a way that was never done before, and in a scale never achieved before at any point in history.
On the other side of it…
Since October 8th, Hizballa, Hizbolla, or whatever you want to call it, fired 8,000 unguided rockets indiscriminately, unprovoked, resulting in dozens of civilian casualties and causing over 100,000 Israelis to be displaced from northern Israel for almost a year.
People seem to have short memory - it was just recently, that one of their rockets hit a football field in Israel while kids were playing football on it, resulting in 12 dead children.
Not enough for you?
Let’s discuss Iran, the main sponsor of Hizballa and Hamas, who fired 300 missiles and drones in a single night mid April, resulting in *0* military targets hit, and a single, 10 year old, Arab Muslim Bedouin girl, injured.
And of course, we cannot end this discussion without the notorious Hamas, who on a single holiday morning butchered 1,200 people, 900 of them civilians (and of course took 250 hostages, almost half of them still in captivity today).
So here we have it:
Israel targeting *militants only* using ingenious ways, while the axis of evil, Iran-Hizballa-Hamas targets *civilians purposely*, and taking pride in it.
For the average, objective observer, this should be a no-brainer, right?
But, something strange is happening.
Even when Israel is doing it all it can to target combatants, and Iran-Hizballa-Hamas does it all it can to target civilians and cause fear and terror - the global community, namely the UN and the European Union’s Josep Borell, are siding with the axis of evil - calling Israel to avoid retaliating to the aggression of its attackers, and not even once calling to Hamas to release the hostages.
very strange.
Could it be that, allegedly, a certain someone is on a certain payroll?
With many dead and 2800 injured in Lebanon as a result of "exploding pagers", is Israel now just a full-blown terrorist state?
Let’s see.
Here are the facts:
So far, there have been 2 “waves” of attacks by electronic devices in 48 hours. The first with pagers (beepers), and the second with short range coms (walkie talkie).
All the devices were owned, distributed and used explicitly by Hizballa operatives and cooperators.
Moreover, all the explosive charges were small enough to make sure the blast radius was minimal - and it is indeed evident with the fact that less than 1% of the terrorists hit actually died from it. However, the result still makes sure almost none of them can come back to fighting anytime soon.
Before anything else, this has got to be one of the most innovative, creative, and plain admirable ways ever implemented in any war - to make sure only combatants are hit, and minimize civilian casualties.
But that’s not enough to satisfy those like the OP who are set on blaming Israel no matter what.
So, let us look at the actual numbers, shall we?
With those “2,800 injured” - actually now over 4,500 mind you, and 41 dead, out of which 40 are identified by Hizballa itself as its operatives - see the lovely obituary collage below - it seems Israel has once again found a way to target combatants only, in a way that was never done before, and in a scale never achieved before at any point in history.
On the other side of it…
Since October 8th, Hizballa, Hizbolla, or whatever you want to call it, fired 8,000 unguided rockets indiscriminately, unprovoked, resulting in dozens of civilian casualties and causing over 100,000 Israelis to be displaced from northern Israel for almost a year.
People seem to have short memory - it was just recently, that one of their rockets hit a football field in Israel while kids were playing football on it, resulting in 12 dead children.
Not enough for you?
Let’s discuss Iran, the main sponsor of Hizballa and Hamas, who fired 300 missiles and drones in a single night mid April, resulting in *0* military targets hit, and a single, 10 year old, Arab Muslim Bedouin girl, injured.
And of course, we cannot end this discussion without the notorious Hamas, who on a single holiday morning butchered 1,200 people, 900 of them civilians (and of course took 250 hostages, almost half of them still in captivity today).
So here we have it:
Israel targeting *militants only* using ingenious ways, while the axis of evil, Iran-Hizballa-Hamas targets *civilians purposely*, and taking pride in it.
For the average, objective observer, this should be a no-brainer, right?
But, something strange is happening.
Even when Israel is doing it all it can to target combatants, and Iran-Hizballa-Hamas does it all it can to target civilians and cause fear and terror - the global community, namely the UN and the European Union’s Josep Borell, are siding with the axis of evil - calling Israel to avoid retaliating to the aggression of its attackers, and not even once calling to Hamas to release the hostages.
very strange.
Could it be that, allegedly, a certain someone is on a certain payroll?